Mellenials go trailer camping...........does not end well

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Serves em right buying a Jap truck

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It’s the damn RV dealers fault also. Many years ago Lazy Days RV here in Tampa sod a very old Frail gentleman a Hugh Motorhome. Next door to them is a flying J. Old man drove over a pump, it caught fire and he had to be rescued to keep from burning up. It was bad publicly for Lazy Days. I think one salesman wouldn’t sell it to him. But another did.
 
About 10 years ago one of my friends pulled his camper into the parking lot at work. Or at least tried to. The gate had a truck barrier, one of those things keeps anything taller than a passenger car from getting in. The barrier was real sturdy. Peeled that camper open like an orange. Total destruction. Took him many years to live that one down….
 
a couple of days ago i saw a camper trailer about that size being towed by a model 3 tesla :realcrazy:
 
72Dinger said:
Same truck is my daily. I love it, but the 4.0L motor barely propels it, let alone a load. Also its made in TN. Had my reservations too about buying a foreign mark...
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When I need to haul something I fire up the plow truck, 6.0 diesel F350

Not the smoothest ride but it would pull everything I own at once, if I could find a trailer big enough
 
Everywhere is bad but the damn police would rather write speeding tickets because it’s easier. Same with damn people texting and driving.
 
Mike69cuda said:
About 10 years ago one of my friends pulled his camper into the parking lot at work. Or at least tried to. The gate had a truck barrier, one of those things keeps anything taller than a passenger car from getting in. The barrier was real sturdy. Peeled that camper open like an orange. Total destruction. Took him many years to live that one down….
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It should be legal to shoot the tires out whenever you see a tiny little **** box truck pulling a trailer ...and over the speed limit
 
Drive's me nut how people don't have insurance on whatever gets damaged.
GoFundMe instead of insurance, please replace our camper, house roof or project car that got destroyed in the tornadoe, it's just bull ****.
 
How about the trailers with the 12 inch tires on them. At 60 they are spinning like 150.
 
MOPAROFFICIAL said:
With these young n dumb types...all you gotta do is drive right next to them...they'll keep speeding up till they crash themselves out. You just gotta change lanes before the jackknife and trailer whipping occurs
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Yeh, and I've seen some YouTube stuff where "someone with a camera is just driving right up or beside someone who is in convulsions, and then narrowly misses getting tied up in "the mess."
 
And I guaranty they drive in the hammer lane everywhere they go. Travel trailers-trucks and motor homes should be in the right lane or get a ticket.! Always in the way swerving all over the road
 
I see that kind of crap almost every day here in Colorado. Usually it's a F150 towing a monster trailer and the damn truck is sitting so high in the front, it looks like it's begging for a treat. Betting they didn't opt for the electric trailer brake option....
 
I'm amazed they got away with using that toy truck to pull that camper as long as they did! :realcrazy: I would never pull something that size with any truck that had less than 32 lug nuts.
 
Did it say anywhere, what they got the reckless ticket for?
One night quite a few years ago, A CJ5 Jeep pulling a good sized Airstream trailer passed me on the Interstate going 75 mph-talk about bobbing and wagging! I really thought we would come up on him rolled over in the ditch, but never did.
 
lemondana said:
Did it say anywhere, what they got the reckless ticket for?
One night quite a few years ago, A CJ5 Jeep pulling a good sized Airstream trailer passed me on the Interstate going 75 mph-talk about bobbing and wagging! I really thought we would come up on him rolled over in the ditch, but never did.
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Part of the reason such short WB rigs don't wobble is because the trailer hitch is essentially hooked to the axle. That does not mean, though that it will stop, and it does not mean that in a poor traction situation like rain, snow, that the damn thing has enough effect to steer "the rig"

I used to haul wood--A LOT of it--on my old car trailer back in the day, with my old FJ-40 Landcruiser. That thing was solid as a rock with that load. But this was slow driving, not freeway, and not over 40 type roads. The trailer had great brakes, the LC, "not so much" LOL
 
Sometimes it's not even a load that will do it to you. I used to pull my car trailer with my old '69 Polara wagon. Never had a problem with a load strapped down properly (with the correct amount of tongue weight), BUT we were travelling down I-5 south of Tracy, CA (very windy at times) with a desk on the trailer. So, basically empty as far as the car was concerned. The trailer was too LIGHT and there was too much wind. Every time the trailer would bounce up off the pavement it would move with the wind...I got off the Interstate and headed east out of the wind...
 
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